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OSPGEN 11: Multicultural Australia

Creative expressions of Australia¿s many ethnic groups, with an emphasis on the ways in which those very arts have been part of ethnic and racial formations within Australian history. Topics include: indigenous traditions; the colonial engagements that started with the voyage of Captain James Cook (1770) and the penal colony led by Captain Arthur Phillip (1788); the sometimes rival pull of Asia and the west; and Australia¿s place amid the global flows of the early 21st century. Throughout these histories the role of migrants and refugees, of welcoming and hostile hosts, will be considered in relation to the creative arts. Location: Sydney, Australia
Terms: Sum | Units: 2

OSPGEN 12: "Uttermost Part of the Earth" The Intersection of Nature and the Human Enterprise in Patagonia

Field-based course introducing environmental gradients and natural resources of southern Patagonia as well as current issues fisheries, ranching, and tourism. The coupled human-natural systems of Patagonia provide a unique lens to explore broader resource management and conservation issues. Curriculum includes field explorations, classroom lectures and community engaged learning in which students will meet government planners, fishermen and fish processing plant operators, tour operators, and local conservationists. Two team-based research projects using Stanford resources in Patagonia. Location: Southern Patagonia (Argentina and Chile).
Terms: Sum | Units: 2

OSPGEN 13: Israeli Democracy Under Stress

Israel complex political, social and religious landscape. Israel extraordinary achievements including the very fact of its survival against great odds and its contemporary dilemmas and divisions. Through readings, lectures, site visits, and interactions with a wide range of Israelis in politics, government, academia, and civil society, explore the past and present of Israel political structure and its relationship with the state diverse population. Engage the very questions about the country future that Israelis themselves are now debating with respect to constitutional structure, politics, the economy, the society, and national security.  Location: Jerusalem, Israel.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Diamond, L. (PI)

OSPGEN 14: Faith, Science and the Classical Tradition in Renaissance Florence

The story of the Florentine Renaissance as a shift from a god-centered world to a human-centered one, beginning with the rediscovery of the classical humanist tradition and leading to the scientific revolution. The city itself as a way to look at the ways people represent their relationship with God and their understanding of what it is to be human and rational. Texts and artwork of the period that represent the varieties of faith experience, and social science accounts of what we know about belief and spiritual experience more generally. Location: Florence, Italy.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2

OSPGEN 15: The Roman Harbor of Puteoli Crucible of Volcanism, Concrete Manufacturing, and Trading

Interactions between seismicity and volcanic activity in the Neapolitan Province, Southern Italy, and how these are interwoven with the engineering of Roman maritime concrete and the ancient trade routes across the Mediterranean. A journey inside the volcanoes of the region and a walking tour through the archaeological sites of Greek and Roman age. Through lectures, directed-readings, and a series of field trips to volcanoes, buried and underwater cities, and coastal cliffs, learn about natural disasters, properties of rocks and building materials, and how these materials have been used to build many of the long-lasting, ancient monuments and cities. Location: Pozzuoli, Italy.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Vanorio, T. (PI)

OSPGEN 16: Island Biogeography and Culture of Madagascar

Island biogeography and culture in Madagascar with emphasis on the effects of isolation over long periods time.  Topics include species arrival, adaptive radiation, endemism, island giantism and dwarfism, ecology, energy flow, food webs, and keystone species. Historical perspective to provide a context for contemporary Madagascar.  Comparison with various islands as well as biological versus cultural isolation. Also, effects of perturbing isolation due to natural and anthropogenic effects including invasive micro and macro species, habitat loss, climate change, and pollution. Proposals for habitat preservation and remediation including local and international initiatives. Daily field studies. Location: Madagascar.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Siegel, R. (PI)

OSPGEN 17: Building Trust in Autonomy: Research Experiences in Edinburgh

Development of autonomous systems that have the potential to bring significant benefits to society. How do we build these systems that drive our cars, fly our planes, and invest our money? How do we develop trust in these systems? What is the societal impact on increased levels of autonomy? Fundamental concepts of autonomy; immersion in cutting-edge research laboratories at the University of Edinburgh. Instruction from lectures, guest lectures, student presentations, and individual research. The students will produce research papers and present their work to the group as well as to their respective laboratories. Location Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2

OSPGEN 18: Conserving the Last Wild Places: Conservation Photography and Print Journalism

Integration of conservation photography and print journalism to address environmental issues in national, regional and private parks. Fundamentals of creative cooperation in small teams. Examination of print journalism and social documentary photography from historical roots through present. Workshops, guest speakers, and field trips culminating in group and individual projects. Location: South Africa.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2

OSPGEN 19: Global Migration and Health

Migration trends, patterns and theories including investigating special needs of refugees, and the challenges and impact on the receiving countries, from a local, regional and global migration perspective, and within a historical framework. Focus on physical and mental health related issues. Analysis of health patterns of migrants from different areas and diverse health care needs. Generational change in health behaviors of second and third generation of immigrants, including adaptation of new health behaviors by immigrants according to country of migration. Understanding health care needs and challenges faced by immigrants from different countries of origin to enable contributions toward improving health of both migrant and receiving populations, in a local and global context. Location: Barcelona, Spain.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Rodriguez, E. (PI)

OSPGEN 20: Community, Health, & Learning Through Service in Sri Lanka

Basic elements of the holistic grassroots development strategy of the village-based Sarvodaya Movement, with special focus onimplications for individual, family and village health. Experiential learning includes lectures from experts working in different facets of health care and prevention; volunteering on an organic farm; visiting an eco village; a home stay; participating in a four-day Shramadana work camp; and instruction in participatory photo mapping. Using the framework of asset-based community development, explore topics such as nutrition, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, prevention and treatment of violence, psychosocial rehabilitation, traditional healing and meditation in the context of ethnic and religious diversity, poverty, recovery from natural disaster and civil war. Location: Sri Lanka
Terms: Sum | Units: 2

OSPGEN 32: The Amsterdam Trans-Idiomatic Arts Practicum

Reflection on the difference between "home" and "away" through the prism of art. Review arts events throughout Amsterdam in varying media and create similarly varied original art projects in response. Lectures, discussion, "atelier laboratories," walking tours, and regional field trips. Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Terms: Sum | Units: 2 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors: ; Applebaum, M. (PI)

OSPGEN 35: South Africa Technology and Engineering

Two-week study trip to South Africa accompanied by a Stanford professor and graduate student lead. Offered by the School of Engineering in partnership with the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP). First-hand insights into technology and engineering based businesses in China. Participants will: 1) gain knowledge of a wide spectrum of technology-based companies in the focus country; 2) understand, in a comparative approach, how western companies localize to stay competitive; and 3) experience first-hand the social and environmental impact of these businesses. Prior to departure, students will go through a curriculum targeted at understanding the state of technology business in China in order to maximize the learning experience students will have on the ground.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Seelig, T. (PI)

OSPGEN 36: China Technology and Engineering

Two-week study trip to China accompanied by a Stanford professor and graduate student lead. Offered by the School of Engineering in partnership with the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP). First-hand insights into technology and engineering based businesses in China. Participants will: 1) gain knowledge of a wide spectrum of technology-based companies in the focus country; 2) understand, in a comparative approach, how western companies localize to stay competitive; and 3) experience first-hand the social and environmental impact of these businesses. Prior to departure, students will go through a curriculum targeted at understanding the state of technology business in China in order to maximize the learning experience students will have on the ground.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Cargnello, M. (PI)

OSPGEN 63: Bio-Cultural Diversity and Community-Based Conservation in Oaxaca

Interdisciplinary seminar emphasizing two major areas of study: biological sciences (ecology) and culture (the human dimensions of conservation and use of natural resources based on indigenous traditional knowledge). Challenges and opportunities of interacting with researchers and students from other cultures; analysis of the ways in which academic institutions and rural, indigenous institutions are, jointly, undertaking the challenge of sustainably managing biological resources. Location: Mexico City and Oaxaca, Mexico.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Dirzo, R. (PI)

OSPGEN 77: The Other France: Troubadours and the Politics of Cultural Heritage

The study of troubadours and medieval cultural heritage in southern France and northern Spain. Readings include troubadour poetry, histories of medieval France (Catharism and the Albigensian Crusade) and articles on modern interpretations of medieval culture. Meetings in Narbonne, France, with visit to sites associated with the troubadours in southern France and Catalonia, Spain.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Instructors: ; Galvez, M. (PI)

OSPGEN 135: South Africa Technology and Engineering

Two-week study trip to South Africa accompanied by a Stanford professor and graduate student lead. Offered by the School of Engineering in partnership with the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP). First-hand insights into technology and engineering based businesses in China. Participants will: 1) gain knowledge of a wide spectrum of technology-based companies in the focus country; 2) understand, in a comparative approach, how western companies localize to stay competitive; and 3) experience first-hand the social and environmental impact of these businesses. Prior to departure, students will go through a curriculum targeted at understanding the state of technology business in China in order to maximize the learning experience students will have on the ground.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Seelig, T. (PI)

OSPGEN 136: China Technology and Engineering

Two-week study trip to China accompanied by a Stanford professor and graduate student lead. Offered by the School of Engineering in partnership with the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP). First-hand insights into technology and engineering based businesses in China. Participants will: 1) gain knowledge of a wide spectrum of technology-based companies in the focus country; 2) understand, in a comparative approach, how western companies localize to stay competitive; and 3) experience first-hand the social and environmental impact of these businesses. Prior to departure, students will go through a curriculum targeted at understanding the state of technology business in China in order to maximize the learning experience students will have on the ground.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Cargnello, M. (PI)

OSPGEN 259: Community Health in Oaxaca

Continuation of MED 259. Close observation of clinicians at work in community health settings in Oaxaca and service with local community health organizations. Combination of classroom study and discussion with cultural immersion, language training, clinical shadowing, and community service. Topics include: Mexican healthcare system; cultural, socioeconomic and educational factors impacting health of Mexicans and Mexican immigrants to U.S.; Mexican cultural and health beliefs; Mexican migration as a multi-ethnic process. Prerequisite: Acceptance into program and successful completion of MED 259 (Spring quarter 2015)
Terms: Sum | Units: 2 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 6 units total)
Instructors: ; Garcia, G. (PI)
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